DOW-UAP-D128, AAWSAP DIRD, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, March 2010
This document is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD), a technical reference format used by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to capture baseline knowledge on a specific topic for later analytic use. DIRDs are best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than as original research. It is one of 38 DIRDs produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) between 2009 and 2011. Because AAWSAP’s scope permitted a broad range of supporting topics, not every DIRD in the series directly concerns aerospace systems or future threat assessment. The following summary reflects the DIRD’s scope and framing at the time of writing and should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed. This DIRD surveys reported acute and subacute injuries allegedly associated with close exposure to anomalous field effects, attempting to draw tentative parallels between these claimed symptoms and the known physiological effects of intense radiofrequency .and microwave exposure on human tissue. By reviewing medical and biophysical literature on heating, burns, neurological effects, and sensory disturbances, the report speculates on theoretical mechanisms by which intense electromagnetic fields might account for some of the reported injury patterns, though it does not establish a direct causal link between the reported injuries and any specific source. It hypothesizes that clinical symptoms and reported exposure circumstances might allow for highly constrained, limited inferences regarding the characteristics of an unknown emitter or propulsion system. Notably, the document’s findings rely heavily on case comparisons lacking physical examinations, untestable exposure conditions, and a mix of established science and more controversial literature. These comparisons are then extended to anomalous-craft scenarios, attempting to map known electromagnetic injury mechanisms onto anomalous encounter claims that lack independent scientific validation in the report.
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Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues Prepared by: Acquisition Support Division (DW0-3) Defense Warning Office Directorate for Analysis Defense Intelligence Agency AAP Person 81 Administrative Note COPYRIGHT WARN ING : Further dissemination of the photographs in this publication is not authorized. This product is one in a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Warning Office's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA Pro ram. Comments or uestions pertaining to this document should be addressed to AAP Person 1 AAWSA Program Manager, Defense Intelligence Agency, ATTN: CLAR/DW0-3, Bldg 6000, Washington,
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Preface and Summary ............................................................................................. v Chapter One: Definition of Topic and Domain of this Study ................................... 1 A. What is addressed in this review ................................................................... 1 B. What is not addressed in this review ............................................................. 1 Chapter Two: Background: What is Thought to Cause Harm? ................................ 2 A. Setting the Stage: What others have said openly about injury caused by EMR C. Field effects and hearing / communications................................................... 5 D. Relationships of Physics and Biophysics to Injuries....................................... 7 Chapter Three: How Damage Occurs ..................................................................... 8 A. The effects that burn...................................................................................... 9 B. The enigma of "non-thermal" wheals and localized "burns" ........................ 11 Some thoughts on neurological correlates ................................................... 12 Chapter Four: Applicable Subacute Injury Effects ................................................ 13 Chapter Five: Cognitive and Neural Injury Mechanisms and Effects .................... 16 Appendix A: Schuessler Catalog of UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects Appendix B: Green/Morris Example to Show the Global Breadth of Available Older ICD Case Inputs From Multiple Data Sources (red =pending ICD classification) .. 25
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Figure 1. Variation of Normalised Specific Absorption Rate with Frequency and Related Absorption Characteristics in Living Organisms.........................................9 (U) Table 1: Limits for Maximum Permissible Exposure..........................................15 Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues Preface and Summary Several years ago three previous fit and active individuals experienced an anomalous ["irregular, incongruous and inconsistent with their domain"] aerospace-related event. Within 72 hours they suffered medical signs and symptoms [acute and subacute effects]. • These included almost immediate erythema (heat and redness) over exposed [to the presumed source of an electromagnetic radiation] skin, and varying degrees of the following as a function of their body-surface exposure times: fever, pain, headaches, numbness and parasthesiae, malaise, diarrhea, loss of hair and alopecia, skin eruptions/boils, cardiac palpitations, beginnings of what were to become chronic headaches and symptoms of insomnia and other sleep and dream disturbances, moderate to occasional severe anxiety and insomnia. Two of the persons also experienced photophobia (extreme sensitivity to light), dry and scratchy stinging eyes, and extreme inflamed blood-shot sclerae (whites of the eyes) with soft tissue swelling of the eyelids. One of the three experienced moderate blood dyscrasia and signs of radiation illness, and over several years developed signs of malignant transformations. Extensive, but controversial investigations revealed the three had been subjected to an accidental exposure in the near-field [meters] to a broad-band ultrahigh radiofrequency mixed radiation of RF (radio frequency), NIEMR (non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation) & microwave energies [including non-specific and un-measured induced ionizing effects, probably mixed UVA, UVB and UVC (Ultra Violet A, B, C}] centered at about 785 MHz. • These three persons were antennae engineers subjected to an anomalous An extensive review of the medical literature and a compilation of a database has revealed an additional relevant but less dramatic 42 cases from the peer reviewed medical literature, and an additional un-published similar 300 cases, primarily when fields were measured or emitters were known of mixed exposures of from 1 -10 GHz at power densities of above 100 mW/cm2• This paper relates, summarizes, and analyzes evidence of unintended injury to human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems. Additionally, an argument is made that the subsequent work can inform (e.g., reverse engineer), through clinical diagnoses, certain physical characteristics of possible future advanced aerospace systems from unknown provenance that may be a threat to United States interests.
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The evidence discussed includes scientific material that has been peer reviewed, contained in recently declassified government documents, and early emergent clinical medical analyses also underway in companion research • Based on historical cases, humans have been found to have been injured from exposures to anomalous vehicles, especially airborne, and when in relatively close proximity. • The primary mechanisms of injury are related to electromagnetic radiation field effects (EMR field effects). • The biophysical characteristics of the injuries are well understood. • The energy related propulsion systems are not well understood. • The potential deployment of systems is thus important to understand. • Sufficient incidents/accidents have been accurately reported, and medical data acquired, as to support a hypothesis that some advanced systems are already deployed, and opaque to full US understanding. • Amongst the most important pathophysiological effects are: - Heating and burn injuries Ionizing and non-ionizing Thermally induced - Neurological effects Cognitive/ central nervous system Neuromuscular / central & autonomic nervous systems Sensory/ peripheral nervous system Neuropsychiatric / neuroendocrine Communication & disabling effects Noise and central neurocognitive • Analysis of clinical diagnostic codes together with environmental conditions observed during anomalous events are clustered in meaningful ways.
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• The medical analyses while not requiring the invention of an alternative biophysics, do indicate the use of (to us) unconventional and advanced energy systems.
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Chapter One: Definition of Topic and Domain of this Study The objective of the overall program for which this paper has been prepared is to understand the physics and the engineering of advanced aerospace weapons system applications ...into the future, e.g., from now through the year 2050. This study addresses the clinical medical signs and symptoms and biophysics of injury known and expected from unintended exposure to anomalous systems. A. WHAT IS ADDRESSED IN THIS REVIEW Advanced aerospace technologies, as with current technologies, often involve exposure of humans to exceptionally strong, and in the future to likely exotic, fields. This review is meant to cover the clinical medical injurious effects, including harmful psychiatric/
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of DoD's 282 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the DoD agency block it ranks #244 of 282 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 478-file archive it ranks #419 of 478.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (419 of 478 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
Anomalousness Index: 53/100
This is a reference document, not an encounter report, so the index has no encounter to measure here. The value above is the rubric's default for a document that describes no event, shown so every file in the archive can be ranked the same way. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
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The file describes no object and no motion, so the kinematic axis takes the archive-wide 'no kinematic data' default.
Every file in the archive scores this tier. For a document that describes no event it carries no information about the record at all.
The rubric's default for the file's release status (files released with redactions are catalogued as unresolved, unredacted ones as open). For a document that reports no event this describes how the file was released, not anything that happened.
Bottom line on the score: the 53/100 is the rubric's default for a document that reports no encounter, so it is not a finding about any event and should not be compared with the scores of sighting reports. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
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